In that case, Blu-Ray allows for permanent archiving for about $0.04/GB. Comes in 128GB disks.

And they'll last 50-100 years?

Go nuts.

But what if when I go to whip out my copy of Freak Out for my grandkids (oh, haha, right...me having kids, oops) to listen to and it's no longer Blu-ray but little flash cells you just write to?

But seriously, it is always interesting to think of what the next ten year will bring technology wise.

I remember when my Dad & I split the cost of a CDRW drive when it was new to market. Absolutely no IDE drives on the market at the time so you had to cough up the price of an expensive SCSI controller card as well.

She is a scientist and inventor, who invented the illusion transmitter for which she received a patent in 1980. (This is an invention that NASA continues to use to this day.)

She went to an all-girls school where she did not receive any training in the sciences. Implicit stereotypes contributed to this, as the girls school did not teach the students about math or science, so she had to educate herself about those subjects. She later attended Morgan State University, and was one of two women in majoring in physics.

She worked at NASA, first as a data analyst and then moving on to oversee the creation of the Lndsat program, then as project manager for the Space Physics Analysis Network and was associate chief for NASA’s Space Science Data Operations Office. She also participated in projects related to Halley’s Comet, ozone research, and the Voyager spacecraft.

She retired in August 1995 as Space Science Data Operations Officer, serving as manager of the NASA Automated Systems Incident Response Capability and serving as chair of the SSDOO Education Committee.

She is currently an associate at the UMBC Center for Multicore Hybrid Productivity Research, and also serves as a mentor for youth through the Science Mathematics Aerospace Research and Technology and National Technical Association.

But what if when I go to whip out my copy of Freak Out for my grandkids (oh, haha, right...me having kids, oops) to listen to and it's no longer Blu-ray but little flash cells you just write to?

But seriously, it is always interesting to think of what the next ten year will bring technology wise.

I remember when my Dad & I split the cost of a CDRW drive when it was new to market. Absolutely no IDE drives on the market at the time so you had to cough up the price of an expensive SCSI controller card as well.

We ended up paying $700 for the thing. Damn.

I just assumed you'd convert to whatnot format in 5-10-15 years and so forth.

Plus, who the hell will want to remember the Mothers by the time you have grandkids.